African painter Amoako Boafo is bringing a fresh and unique perspective to portraiture and figurative painting. Based in Vienna since about 2014, the young Ghanaian is now showing a series of new works titled “Black Diaspora” that cast a subtle, but probing look at...
The holiday season has officially wrapped up, and for that, many are grateful, but for those who still yearn for festivities, the LA art scene this weekend certainly delivered. With galleries revved up into full gear, we were overwhelmed by the array of possible...
“Freedom Cannot Wait”. “Deport ICE”. “Para Todos Todo, Nada Para Nosotros”. “Everything for Everyone, Nothing For Ourselves”. These are not slogans pulled from defiant posters in one of many protests happening regularly across the United States, as American...
Who needs hallucinogens when there are Bridget Riley paintings to fill your field of vision? I'm dizzy, my head is swimming, and vivid spots and rays are dancing so furiously in my eyes that it's like I'm looking through a ghost of a kaleidoscope, minutes after...
Following her long intimacy with one of England’s most renowned modern artists, you might expect to see Lucian Freud’s influence in Celia Paul’s work. But Paul “forged her own path,” says European Art Curator Catherine Hess. Seven of Paul’s works, rarely exhibited in...
Art Basel Miami is the art-world’s Super Bowl. With art, travel, parties and the beach, it was the perfect way to end 2018. At the end of a tiring but invigorating day of viewing art, you might have found yourself walking barefoot along a white-sand beach with a new...
The new year got off to a rousing start on the LA art scene this week, with a wide variety of exhibitions all around town. At Durden and Ray, viewers were encouraged to “cleanse your soul” through the art of "Disclosure." Curators Dani Dodge and Alanna Marcelletti...
Michael Benevento's website is devoid of a bio for Anthony Burdin, a reclusive artist whose work is as intriguing and enigmatic as his mysterious persona. Untitled, Burdin's show encompasses works from 1992-2018 in a wide array of media. Each of Benevento's four...
Poyen Wang and Kio Griffith’s captivating exhibition “Atlas Portal” deftly explores cultural identity, the immigrant experience, and alienation through the lens of personal memory. Wang is a digital media artist from Taiwan, and based in New York City since 2015....
Dear Reader, What's a world without art? Ask me, I think I know. My husband died last September. Since then I’ve balked at art. I despised art. I hated anything that took any time away from those precious hours and days I could have been with him. All the Saturday...
Congratulations to our winner Ave Pildas and our finalists. Pildas photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery. His image is also printed in our January/February issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists from our January/February contest. ...
I make no claim as to the comprehensiveness or objectivity of this selection. Nevertheless, to the extent that it reflects personal priorities, I believe most artists, if not the entire art community, both local and international, acknowledge the existential...
Looking back at 2018, here are 10 exceptionally memorable shows among the 50 I’ve selected for Artillery’s online Pick of the Week throughout the year. Full reviews, and all other Picks, can be found in the column’s ongoing archive: artillerymag.com/pick-of-the-week/...
As we raked through ashes in California, reminded that we had already entered an anthro-obscene geological epoch, the most “important” of the Fall 2018 art auctions were already taking place, with records dropping every step of the way—Hopper, Hockney, Jack Whitten,...
Up an elegant staircase in the Los Feliz mansion that is Parker Gallery, Alexandra Noel's paintings delineate rural scenes appearing very different than the verdant residential realm visible outside diamond-paned windows in the small chamber they currently occupy....
Last year, even as LACMA Director Michael Govan was in the midst of storing the collection off site so that demolition of older buildings could make way for the newly designed museum, he took the time to curate an exhibition featuring Pictures Generation artist...
“People I have great admiration for, people in my own circle, they just keep coming to Los Angeles. All the key people, and they just keep coming,” says art dealer Jeffrey Deitch at his Los Feliz home. “It never stops. And now we have reached critical mass. It’s no...
A recent Barbara Kruger text mural adorns LAXART—accompanying the relaunch of their newly renovated space. The site-specific work debuted in June and extends until Spring this year. One might not have paid much attention to the building before, but Kruger’s signature...
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